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THE FIFTH BOOK OF MOSES CALLED<br/>
<span class=large>DEUTERONOMY</span>
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CHAPTER 31
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Moses counsels Joshua and all Israel to be strong and of good courage—Law to be read to all Israel every seven years—Israel will follow false gods and corrupt themselves.
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And</span> Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel.
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And he said unto them, I <i>am</i> an <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/31/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 7: 7; Deut. 34: 7; Acts 7: 23.">hundred</a> and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath said unto me, Thou shalt not <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/31/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="Num. 20: 12.">go</a> over this Jordan.
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The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God, he will go over before thee, <i>and</i> he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/31/3a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR dispossess.">possess</a> them: <i>and</i> Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath said.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/31/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ether 9: 20.">destroyed</a>.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you.
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Be strong and of a good <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/31/6a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Courage.">courage</a>, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/31/6b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 41: 10; D&C 68: 6."><span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span></a> thy God, he <i>it is</i> that doth go with thee; he will not <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/31/6c" mark="c" type="A" title="Alma 2: 28.">fail</a> thee, nor <sup>d</sup><a href="deut/31/6d" mark="d" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 6: 13; Ps. 94: 14.">forsake</a> thee.
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&#182; And Moses called unto <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/31/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 1: 38.">Joshua</a>, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this people unto the land which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, he <i>it is</i> that doth go before thee; he will be <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/31/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Josh. 1: 5.">with</a> thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.
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&#182; And Moses <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/31/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Record Keeping; TG Scribes; TG Scriptures, Writing.">wrote</a> this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and unto all the <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/31/9b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Elders.">elders</a> of Israel.
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And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of <i>every</i> seven years, <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/31/10a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB at the appointed time.">in</a> the solemnity of the year of <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/31/10b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 15: 2 (1-2, 9).">release</a>, in the feast of tabernacles,
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When all Israel is <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/31/11a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Meetings.">come</a> to appear before the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God in the <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/31/11b" mark="b" type="A" title="Josh. 9: 27 (24-27); 2 Chr. 7: 12.">place</a> which he shall choose, thou shalt <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/31/11c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Scriptures, Study.">read</a> this <sup>d</sup><a href="deut/31/11d" mark="d" type="A" title="Neh. 8: 2 (2-3).">law</a> before all Israel in their hearing.
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Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/31/12a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR sojourners, proselytes.">stranger</a> that <i>is</i> within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:
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And <i>that</i> their children, which have not known <i>any thing,</i> may hear, and <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/31/13a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Learning.">learn</a> to fear the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
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&#182; And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> said unto Moses, Behold, thy <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/31/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 47: 29 (28-29).">days</a> approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/31/14b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB tent of meeting.">tabernacle</a> of the congregation, that I may give him a charge.  And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.
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&#182; And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/31/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 34: 15; Jer. 3: 2 (1-10); Hosea 9: 1.">whoring</a> after the <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/31/16b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Ne. 9: 37; Alma 7: 6.">gods</a> of the strangers of the land, whither they go <i>to be</i> among them, and will forsake me, and <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/31/16c" mark="c" type="A" title="Judg. 2: 1.">break</a> my covenant which I have made with them.
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Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/31/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 39: 23.">hide</a> my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day,  Are not these evils come upon us, because our God <i>is</i> not among us?
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And I will surely hide my <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/31/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="3 Ne. 9: 11.">face</a> in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.
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Now therefore <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/31/19a" mark="a" type="A" title="3 Ne. 16: 4.">write</a> ye this <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/31/19b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 32: 1 (1-43).">song</a> for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
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For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/31/20a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Provoking.">provoke</a> me, and break my covenant.
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And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/31/21a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Singing.">song</a> shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/31/21b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB their inclinations which are already forming.">their</a> imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.
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&#182; Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.
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And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/31/23a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 3: 28.">charge</a>, and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee.
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&#182; And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,
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That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, saying,
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Take this <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/31/26a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Scriptures, Preservation.">book</a> of the <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/31/26b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 8: 21.">law</a>, and put it in the side of the <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/31/26c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Ark of the Covenant.">ark</a> of the covenant of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> your God, that it may be there for a <sup>d</sup><a href="deut/31/26d" mark="d" type="A" title="Ex. 25: 21.">witness</a> against thee.
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For I know thy <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/31/27a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Rebellion.">rebellion</a>, and thy <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/31/27b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Stiffneckedness.">stiff</a> neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; and how much more after my death?
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&#182; Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them.
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For I know that after my death ye will utterly <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/31/29a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 44: 23.">corrupt</a> <i>yourselves,</i> and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/31/29b" mark="b" type="A" title="Hosea 3: 5 (1-5).">latter</a> days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
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And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended.
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